Stamped from the Beginning

Challenging the notion of a post-racial society, Ibram X. Kendi's *Stamped from the Beginning* reveals the insidious history of racist ideas in America. Kendi argues that racist ideas were not born of ignorance or hatred, but deliberately created to justify discriminatory policies and perpetuate racial inequities. This National Book Award-winning history traces the evolution of anti-Black racist thought from its origins to the present, chronicling its impact through the lives of five pivotal American intellectuals: Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Angela Davis. By exposing the mechanisms of racist thinking, Kendi provides essential tools for understanding and dismantling it, offering both clarity and hope. This critically acclaimed work is a winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction, a *New York Times* and *Washington Post* Bestseller, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, recognized as a best book of the year by numerous publications.

Archival Categorization Notes

This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of American Civil War. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Causes & Aftermath, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.